“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”-Flannery O’Connor
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Emily Dickinson on Poetry
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”-Emily Dickinson
A couple of Emily Dickinson books
Your poetry certainly passes this test, dearest Emily! Happy birthday.
Blaise Pascal on Reading Too Fast or Too Slowly
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”-Blaise Pascal
Georgia O’Keeffe on Creating One’s World
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”-Georgia O’Keeffe
Albert Camus on the Watcher and the Watched
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. ‘Can they be brought together?’ This is a practical question. We must get down to it. ‘I despise intelligence’ really means: ‘I cannot bear my doubts.'”-Albert Camus
Paul Valéry on Why a Work is Never Completed
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”-Paul Valéry
Rumi on Unfolding Your Own Myth
Rumi Quote
Maya Angelou on One Million Realities
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”-Maya Angelou
Gustave Flaubert on the Sound He Hears Within
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”-Gustave Flaubert
A Quote and a Photo in Honor of Faith Baldwin’s Birthday
American novelist Faith Baldwin was born on 1 October 1893.
Here she is as a young woman, posing with a blurry dog:
Faith Baldwin, circa 1910-1915
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”-Faith Baldwin
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